AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A730M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM Arc A730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1100MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
Arc A730M
+238%
6.758 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Jan 2022
Crystal System
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
300 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
1100 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
3072
64
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
96
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
24
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
12 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
105.6 GPixel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
211.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
13.52 TFLOPS
1.997 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.758 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
80W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
DG2-512
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
